Computer Games and Visually Impaired People

نویسندگان

  • Dominique Archambault
  • Roland Ossmann
  • Thomas Gaudy
  • Klaus Miesenberger
چکیده

Accessibility of computer games is a Challenge. Indeed, making accessible a computer game is much more difficult than making accessible a desktop application. In this paper we first define game accessibility. Then we present a number of papers published in the last decade: specific games (audiogames, tactile games etc), games designed for all, and a few works about game accessibility. Then we will describe the work that we are currently carry out in order to propose a framework allowing mainstream games accessibility.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007